A recent announcement reveals that ZigBee is expanding into the telecom market with a new initiative which would extend mobile telephone networks, leading to new capabilities for mobile phone users. A new ZigBee Telecom Profile is designed to feature secure
Monthly Archives: June 2007
ST Journal Presents Latest Research Findings in Wireless Sensor Networks
STMicroelectronics has published its latest issue of the ST Journal of Research focusing on Wireless Sensor Networks. Previous issues, similarly focused on a particular technology theme, have presented details on the Company’s advanced research efforts on MEMS and Multimedia Streaming
Crossbow and Microsoft Create .NET Wireless Sensor Development Framework
Crossbow Technology announced the Imote2.Builder for .NET Micro Framework, the Imote2 SDK based on the Microsoft(R) .NET Micro Framework. The Imote2.Builder is the industry’s first set of tools for accelerating the development of entirely new wireless sensor applications on the
Sunspots for free!
The good folks at ZDNet are giving away a couple of Sun SPOT dev kits in exchange for doing a review. You can find more info here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=515
SenSys Workshops
Missed the SenSys’07 deadline but still thinking about going to Australia for it? The workshop selections for SenSys’07 are out. Not much information there yet but that would (hopefully) change soon!
Moving towards a sensornet architecture
Recently, researchers are feeling the need for “a” sensornet architecture. We blogged about the WSNA workshop with IPSN’07 sometime back, it was the first event to bring together people interested in sensornet architectures. Below is a list of some selected
P2P meets Sensornets
In April’05 a group of select P2P and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks researcher met at the famous Schloss Dagstuhl to discuss the overlap between the two communities (see P2P MANETs – New Research Issues). Continuing this debate there is a recent
Contiki Podcast on BSDtalk
Adam Dunkels was recently featured on BSDtalk where he talked about Contiki. The Podcast is available here – complete story here.
WSN in domotics
A new italian project about wireless sensor networks in domotics (home-automation) scenarios has been launched.. This is not a product but a pilot project realized by T3LAB, a laboratory established by University of Bologna and Emilia-Romagna Region. This project is
1st European ZigBee Developers’ Conference
A three day conference for developers who want to learn about using ZigBee technology in products. It will be held in Munich, Germany by June 18-20, 2007. Program available here. The key objective now is to bring ZigBee technology closer

